The Tom Waits concert film experience on the big screen! An extremely rare 35mm print of BIG TIME (1988) screens this Saturday, February 8th, at @newbeverly! Tickets:

This stark version chronicles life's dark times when it behooves the mighty and the misbegotten "to get behind the mule in the morning and plow". @recordstoreday is on April 12. Get more information and find stores at

With a Bow of the Head and Tip of the Hat... Here’s to Marianne Faithfull, our friend, a woman who knew what she wanted and did not often apologize for who she was... – Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan Photo: Jean-Baptiste Mondino

So put a candle in the window And a kiss upon his lips As the dish outside the window Fills with rain Just like a stranger with weeds in your heart And pay the fiddler off ’til I come back again Oh it’s time time time And it’s time time time Photo by Jeffery Newbury

Last year, Waits co-hosted an Iggy Confidential episode, echoing their famous appearance in Jim Jarmusch’s Coffee and Cigarettes. The 2-hour program will re-air on Sunday, Dec 29 @ 4pm (GMT) on @bbcsounds Available online for 30 days via the BBC Sounds app

Hey Charlie, happy Xmas Tom Waits performs "Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis" live on Australian TV in 1979

Listen to Tom Waits join Deirdre O'Donahue on KCRW for a wide-ranging conversation and performance on the occasion of his 1987 album and stage play, “Frank’s Wild Years.”

Happy birthday ya old stud pony. Gitty up and go! Photo: Robert Sebree #TomWaits

and the after- hours clubs where jazz, blues, lounge, piano bar crooners would gather and play for and with each other in their search for the ruby eye of the heart that only shone on a Saturday night.

"The more grizzled he gets, the more Tom Waits inhabits his songs, those literate oom-pah stomps through the most decrepit locales and bleak conditions, where humanism barely wrestles down despair” - New York Times

Photo by Anton Corbijn